First time I’ve heard of this system and it looks very cool! Great gift! I liked the jig for drilling the hole. A flick of the switch and you have a 12” or 10” snare drum added to existing 14”. Cool tool! Thanks for the vid. It came out great!
So for Christmas I was blessed by one of my students who bought me a Zikit snare drum kit! If you are scratching your head and wondering what the Zikit is, you were not alone! Turns out, this kit turns your single 14" snare drum basically into three! a 14", 12" and 10" snare with the flip of a lever!! So i couldn't get this installed fast enough to try it out!! So far I have some tweaking and tuning to do but man is this fun!!! I've been playing with lower tuning (which is newer for me since i prefer a snappy cranked tuning) because with the way it functions, I don't want to put too much pressure on the head!
Take a watching and let me know what you think! I'm absolutely loving it and super exciting to try it in one of my next drum covers!
First time I’ve heard of this system and it looks very cool! Great gift! I liked the jig for drilling the hole. A flick of the switch and you have a 12” or 10” snare drum added to existing 14”. Cool tool! Thanks for the vid. It came out great!
I remember seeing a vintage system that used one inner ring (at each end) that pushed internally to the heads for tuning. I believe it was called a Reno pressure ring system. Made in Manchester England.
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Last edited by Olimpass; 12-22-2021 at 09:02 AM.
That's pretty cool. Nice job on the install.
I think I would swap that head with something that doesn't have specialty dampening. I think it hurts the 10" setting as its mostly a dampened head at that point.
All in all it seems like a great option if you use smaller snares.
Thanks for posting!
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My lord I almost stopped the video and deleted it before you drilled that hole in that gorgeous shell, Not sure I could do it...LOL!!! In All honesty it sounds ok but not gonna show it too my wife as I don't I need a reason to buy less snare drums
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I don’t think it’s that crazy. It may have been what spawned the Zikit idea?
How about this drum which has a higher pitch at one end vs. the other?
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Wanted to mention. Good call on lightly sanding the bearing edges that were a little sharp at the parting lines of the mold or were a little bit of flash (plastic leak) possibly.
Olimpass, do you have any info on that monstrosity?
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